[§159-26]  Forgery of mark, brand, or label. (a)  No brand manufacturer, printer, or other person shall cast, print,lithograph, or otherwise make any device containing any official mark, anylabel bearing any such mark, any form of official certificate, or simulationthereof, except as authorized by the board.

(b)  No person, firm, or corporation shall:

(1)  Forge any official device, mark, or certificate.

(2)  Use any official device, mark, or certificate, orsimulation thereof, or alter, detach, deface, or destroy any official device,mark, or certificate without authorization from the board.

(3)  Fail to use, or to detach, deface, or destroy anyofficial device, mark, or certificate contrary to the regulations prescribed bythe board.

(4)  Knowingly possess, without promptly notifying theboard or its representative, any official device or any counterfeit, simulated,forged, or improperly altered official certificate or any device or label orany carcass of any animal, or part or product thereof, bearing any counterfeit,simulated, forged, or improperly altered official mark.

(5)  Knowingly make any false statement in anyshipper's certificate or other nonofficial or official certificate provided forin the regulations prescribed by the board.

(6)  Knowingly represent that any meat or meatproducts have been inspected and passed, or exempted, under this chapter when,in fact, it has, respectively not been so inspected and passed, or exempted.

(c)  No person shall sell, transport, offer forsale or transportation, or receive for transportation, in intrastate commerce,any carcasses of horses, mules, or other equines or parts of such carcasses, orthe meat or meat products thereof, unless they are plainly and conspicuouslymarked or labeled or otherwise identified as prescribed by the board to showthe kinds of animals from which they were derived.  When required by the boardwith respect to establishments at which inspection is maintained under thischapter, the animals and their carcasses, parts thereof, meat or meat productsshall be prepared in establishments separate from those in which cattle, sheep,swine, or goats are slaughtered or their carcasses, parts thereof, meats ormeat products are prepared. [L 1969, c 214, pt of §1]